Travis Mansbridge - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Cubic litres (Score 1) 268

by Travis Mansbridge on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @09:16PM (#47989825) Attached to: IBM Solar Concentrator Can Produce12kW/day, Clean Water, and AC

I'm pretty sure it cleans that amount of water (which the title refers to as "producing clean water") and I'm still not sure where they got AC, unless that's what they're calling the cooling done by the water as it draws heat from the solar units.

Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 5, Funny) 221

by Travis Mansbridge on Sunday September 21, 2014 @08:44AM (#47958341) Attached to: Secret Service Critics Pounce After White House Breach

Clearly, more dead presidents means fewer dead presidents.

Comment And.. (Score 2) 178

by Travis Mansbridge on Friday September 19, 2014 @05:47AM (#47943747) Attached to: Netropolitan Is a Facebook For the Affluent, and It's Only $9000 To Join

According to their terms of use, they can terminate your account at any time, for any reason, and you aren't entitled to a refund.

Comment Re:Lucky them (Score 2) 159

by Travis Mansbridge on Monday September 15, 2014 @06:09PM (#47913173) Attached to: Court Rules the "Google" Trademark Isn't Generic

"Google" is not shorter than "search," and it even has more syllables.

Comment Re:Fucking Government doesn't care about US (Score 2) 73

by Travis Mansbridge on Sunday September 14, 2014 @03:19AM (#47900707) Attached to: NSA Metadata Collection Gets 90-Day Extension

Actually, while the 4th amendment was extended around the '50s to protect telephonic communications, no such extension has been made yet to cover electronic communication. That's the real problem, this is still constitutional because our government is stuck in the 20th century.

Comment Re:It's a bad sign (Score 5, Informative) 223

by Travis Mansbridge on Thursday September 11, 2014 @08:27PM (#47885855) Attached to: U.S. Threatened Massive Fine To Force Yahoo To Release Data

Snowden calls this "NSA Fatigue"

Comment Re:You should see (Score 1) 176

by Travis Mansbridge on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @06:18PM (#47866517) Attached to: 3 Short Walking Breaks Can Reverse Harm From 3 Hours of Sitting

Yeah, but it looks like you used Scotch tape.

Comment Re:good plan (Score 2) 200

by Travis Mansbridge on Saturday September 06, 2014 @09:38PM (#47843783) Attached to: Silicon Valley Fights Order To Pay Bigger Settlement In Tech Talent Hiring Case

A group of companies agreeing not to raise workers' wages so they don't entice them away from each other is the essence of non-competition.

Comment Re:This is much cooler (Score 1) 41

by Travis Mansbridge on Thursday September 04, 2014 @12:27AM (#47822875) Attached to: Japanese Firm Showcases "Touchable" 3-D Technology

Looks like their first stretch goal, which they've met, was a "rumbler for tactile feedback," about 5% down the page.

Comment 1981 (Score 5, Funny) 180

by Travis Mansbridge on Thursday August 28, 2014 @08:06PM (#47780403) Attached to: The Executive Order That Led To Mass Spying, As Told By NSA Alumni

Three years early!

Comment Re:This is very Subjective. (Score 2) 382

by Travis Mansbridge on Thursday August 28, 2014 @02:50PM (#47777397) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Are the Best Games To Have In Your Collection?

Mario 64, by today's standards, is a pretty boring platformer.

Are you kidding? I just played through this again the other day. Flying, swimming, getting shot out of a cannon, riding a turtle shell like a skateboard.. Mario 64 is one of the best 3D games of all time. Ocarina of Time still stands up too.

And while I'm here, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Comment Re:Jerks (Score 1) 97

by Travis Mansbridge on Sunday August 24, 2014 @07:55PM (#47744363) Attached to: Hackers Claim PlayStation Network Take-Down

Isn't Mass Effect a singleplayer game?

Comment There are 6 of them now? (Score 5, Funny) 465

by Travis Mansbridge on Friday August 22, 2014 @11:03AM (#47729453) Attached to: 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater

I'm just surprised 700,000 people wanted to see Fast and the Furious 6.

Comment Re:MMO Crap (Score 5, Funny) 203

by Travis Mansbridge on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @11:55PM (#47709467) Attached to: Fifth Edition Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook Released

A simple troll of the dice!

Comment Re:Just don't deal with Americans (Score 2) 251

by Travis Mansbridge on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @10:26PM (#47709037) Attached to: Comcast Training Materials Leaked

That's just the thing, the customers have no choice. As they maneuver to buyout Time Warner, Comcast themselves state plainly, "Comcast and TWC do not compete against each other in any area"

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